Quotes About Ambition

Franklin's own idea was more expansive: he believed in encouraging and providing opportunities for all people to succeed based on their diligence

In our time equality is confused with conformity – as Nietzsche sees it– and it is taken to involve the renunciation of personal initiative and the demand for a general leveling. Men are losing the ambition to be equally excellent, which involves as the surest means the desire to excel one another in continued competition, and they are becoming resigned to being equally mediocre.

endless soaring toy-rocket dreams and schemes that let out a sad, weak 'pop' at their high climax point and then flake apart as they tumble toward some thorn patch that's also a hatching ground for baby snakes

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

Ain't no shame in bein' a grocer but it's bitch and a half if they think that that's all you're good for.

Not for the first time in my life I had made it to the top. For some reason this made me hanker for a chili dog with chopped onions under a blanket of processed American cheese.

I gave my children the kind of dreams they could live by, but dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they're worth a damn they're bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls'em down.

Black men of our day were never told , the skies the limit. Our limits were more like the inner lid of a coffin.

dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they're worth a damn they're bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls'em down.

Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

Mientras la ambición y las ansias de poder gobiernen el corazón de algunos hombres, no habrá paz duradera en la tierra. La guerra, por desgracia, es condición humana.

Me, on whom, in case of failure — which Heaven forefend! —

G]old is their god, and for riches will they pawn their lives as well as their lands.

Your lordship's servant has a sensible, natural, pretty idea of military matters; somewhat irregular, though, and smells a little too much of selling the bear's skin before he has hunted him.

Ambition, policy, bravery, all far beyond their sphere, here learned the fate of mortals.

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job

From this irritating reality comes The First Law of Corporate Survival for ambitious CEOs who pile on leverage and run large and unfathomable derivatives books: Modest incompetence simply won't do; it's mindboggling screw-ups that are required.

The people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

It is not greed that drives the but envy.

wishing makes dreams come true only in Disney movies; it's poison in business.

I want to give my kids just enough so that they would feel that they could do anything, but not so much that they would feel like doing nothing.

If you are not happy being in the top one tenth of one percent wealthiest people on earth, being in the top one hundreth of one percent isn't going to do anything for you.